I am glad to have a chance to talk to you about it. I was it was in person in kansas city. I wish that we were able to do this facetoface, but we will do the very best that we can. The key thing here that i want to return to throughout this presentation is shown by this photograph here of Winston Churchill, harry truman, and Joseph Stalin smiling and shaking hands. And the point that i really want to reiterate here is that these three men and most of the advisors around them did not believe that what they were doing at potsdam was laying the seeds of a cold war. We know from the scholarship of the 1960s, 1970s and beyond, a lot of historians read potsdam backwards. That is to say they read it as a start of the cold war. But these three men and their staff came to potsdam not to begin a cold war amongst themselves, but celebrate, really, the end of the war with germany, figure out what the post world war was going to look like, and plan for the final victory over japan in the pacific th
To discuss this and more im joined by my guest sarah issue in knoxville she is a visiting scholar at Fudan University and in beijing we cross the jungle he is a professor at the university of International Business and economics across up rules in effect that means you can jump in he time you want and i always appreciate it ok lets go to sara and knoxville. What role is china playing in the American Election because i said in my introduction both biden and trump want they like to show these apps ok that ad versus ad very and i china obviously but i dont see it really making much of an impact on the electorate because there are so many other issues theres the pandemic there is an economic turndown and all the sudden its all chinas fault somehow believe me i understand what that feels like living in russia there. I think that you know definitely something that both candidates will if they have asked you interest because china has been such a big part of President Trumps whole you know po
But i dont see it really making much of an impact on the electorate because there are so many other issues theres the pandemic there is an economic turndown and all the sudden its all chinas fault somehow believe me i understand what that feels like living in russia but its there yeah i think that you know thats certainly something that birth handler illiberal have asked you interest because china has been such a big part of president travels a whole you know policy agenda and so i think thats something that is really important on the list some experts think that its you know one of the top one or 2 or 3 issues d i dont know that it has that certainly agree with that but its something that they have to address but i think you know both candidates are talking about china in a negative way anythings on chinas certainly their coronavirus endemic rates you mentioned you know president trappist stated that its led to a mass worldwide killing and said that china come. And biden hasnt done mu
But i dont see it really making much of an impact on the electorate because there are so many other issues theres the pen demick there is an economic turndown and all the sudden its all chinas fault somehow believe me i understand what that feels like living in russia there yeah i think that you know thats certainly something that birth handler illiberal have afterward for us because china has been such a big part of president trounced whole you know policy agenda and so i think thats something that is really important on the list some experts think that its you know one of the top one or 2 or 3 issues d i dont know that it has that certainly agree with that but its something that they have to address but i think you know both candidates are talking about china in a negative way grainy things on chinas certainly the coronavirus endemic race you mentioned you know president trappist stated that its led to a mass worldwide killing. And said that china covered it out and biden hasnt done
Professor and so Chalo University and in stand where we cross to Daniel Wagner he is c. E. O. Of country risk as well as author of china vision the America China dubai and his new book on the belt and wrote initiative in chinese or text or german crossed up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok lets go to beijing richard the words that you know the world must change turning over china will change just how do you interpret that because so many commentators and one policy or one role if you were in his speech at the Nixon Library a big bewildering because its taking todays circumstances in the post cold war in kind of reverting back he would using the same kind of language and i want to talk about the ideological. I mean china will is changing i was. Well 1st of all i see in my palm pale speech at the Richard Nixon president ial library was an insult to those nixon political legacy and its an insult to china u. S. Relations for more tha